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20090160646 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND TRACKING INVENTORIES - A technique is provided for monitoring and tracking inventories within one or more assets. The technique includes sensing a plurality of parameters associated with each of the one or more assets. The plurality of parameters includes a positional information of the asset. The technique further includes activating RFID tags attached to the inventories and generating a response based upon the responses received from the RFID tags, and monitoring and tracking inventories based on the sensed parameters and the generated response to ensure integrity and validate a chain of custody of the asset or the inventories during a supply chain process. | 06-25-2009 |
20110204143 | Oil and Gas Riser Spider With Low Frequency Antenna Apparatus and Method - An apparatus and methods for tracking a plurality of marine riser assets is provided. Part of a riser lifecycle monitoring system, the apparatus can include an oil and gas riser spider to connect a plurality of riser pipe sections during assembly of a riser pipe string. The riser spider forms an annulus around a first section of the plurality of riser pipe sections and supports the first section of the plurality of riser pipe sections during connection to a second section. The apparatus can also include an antenna to read a plurality of radio frequency identification tags, e.g., directional 125 kHz RFID tags, attached to outsides of the plurality of riser pipe sections. The antenna can include an oblong loop attached to and substantially spanning about half of an internal surface of the riser spider so that the antenna follows the contour of the riser spider. | 08-25-2011 |
20120179585 | Method and System for Laboratory Asset Identification and Management - The present disclosure relates approaches that may be used to manage research assets, such as equipment and consumable items. In certain implementations, asset information from multiple input sources is stored in a database or other mass storage device and may be used to provide a report of the real time condition of any individual research asset. In further implementations, the information may be used to provide indications or reminders associated with an individual research asset, such as maintenance reminders. | 07-12-2012 |
20140167972 | ACOUSTICALLY-RESPONSIVE OPTICAL DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR SENSOR DATA - A sensing and data acquisition system may provide a sensing assembly including a signal conditioner to receive an electrical signal from a sensor affixed onto an asset and supply an encoded digital representation of a sensed parameter. An acoustic modem may be connected to the signal conditioner to receive the encoded digital representation of the sensed parameter and transmit an acoustic signal based on the encoded digital representation of the sensed parameter. A data acquisition line may be proximate to the asset and may be non-contactively coupled to the sensing assembly. The data acquisition line may include an optical fiber acoustically coupled to the acoustic modem and responsive to the encoded digital representation of the sensed parameter transmitted by the modem to effect an optical change in an acoustically-responsive portion of the fiber. The optical change may be measurable to detect the encoded digital representation of the sensed asset parameter. | 06-19-2014 |
20150142315 | MARINE RISER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND AN ASSOCIATED METHOD - In accordance with one aspect of the present technique, a method is disclosed. The method includes receiving sensor data from a first set of sensors mechanically coupled to a first riser joint of a marine riser. The method also includes analyzing the sensor data to determine a condition of the first riser joint and determining whether the condition satisfies a transmission criterion. The method further includes sending a notification including the condition to an on-vessel monitor communicatively coupled to the marine riser in response to determining that the condition satisfies the transmission criterion. | 05-21-2015 |
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20090326610 | Systems and methods for interacting with an implantable medical device - An interactive implantable medical device system includes an implantable medical device and a network-enabled external device capable of bi-directional communication and interaction with the implantable medical device. The external device is programmed to interact with other similarly-enabled devices. The system facilitates improved patient care by eliminating unnecessary geographic limitations on implantable medical device interrogation and programming, and by allowing patients, physicians, and other users to access medical records, history, and information and to receive status and care-related alerts and messages anywhere there is access to a communications network. | 12-31-2009 |
20130184604 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTING WITH AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE - An interactive implantable medical device system includes an implantable medical device and a network-enabled external device capable of bi-directional communication and interaction with the implantable medical device. The external device is programmed to interact with other similarly-enabled devices. The system facilitates improved patient care by eliminating unnecessary geographic limitations on implantable medical device interrogation and programming, and by allowing patients, physicians, and other users to access medical records, history, and information and to receive status and care-related alerts and messages anywhere there is access to a communications network. | 07-18-2013 |
20140323902 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTING WITH AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE - An interactive implantable medical device system includes an implantable medical device and a network-enabled external device capable of bi-directional communication and interaction with the implantable medical device. The external device is programmed to interact with other similarly-enabled devices. The system facilitates improved patient care by eliminating unnecessary geographic limitations on implantable medical device interrogation and programming, and by allowing patients, physicians, and other users to access medical records, history, and information and to receive status and care-related alerts and messages anywhere there is access to a communications network. | 10-30-2014 |
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20110194829 | OPTICAL GROUND WIRE CABLE RETENTION BRACKET - A bracket for mounting an multi-layer cable, such as an optical ground wire, to a fiber optic splice closure, and a method of inserting the multi-layer cable into the fiber optic splice closure using the bracket. The bracket includes mounting holes that are configured to attach to ground studs of the fiber optic splice closure. The bracket also includes cable grip protrusions that align with the entry ports into the fiber optic splice closure. The bracket is attached to the ground studs, and an outer layer of the multi-layer cable is attached to the cable grip protrusions using cable clamps. A portion of the outer layer of the multi-layer cable is removed so that the inner layer can properly enter the entry port into the fiber optic splice closure. | 08-11-2011 |
20120114295 | FIBER OPTIC CABLE MANAGEMENT MODULE AND PANEL - An optical module is provided. The optical module includes a base module and a cable management bracket removably attached to the base module. The base module includes a first adapter configured to interface with a first cable. The base module further includes a plurality of second adapters configured to interface with a plurality of optical fibers and a plurality of second cables. The cable management bracket includes a plurality of cable routing slots for routing the plurality of second cables. A fiber optic panel is also provided. The fiber optic panel includes a base, a plurality of module guides removably attached to the base, and a plurality of the optical modules slid between the module guides. A fiber management system is further provided. The fiber management system includes a rack and the fiber optic panel mounted on the rack. | 05-10-2012 |
20120223192 | HIGH DENSITY CABLE MANAGEMENT BRACKET - A bracket for routing cables in a cable management system that has a mounting portion which is used to mount the bracket to the cable management system and is provided on a mounting end of the bracket. The bracket also has a holding portion that has a plurality of apertures which are to hold the cables. Each of the apertures are provided at a different distance from the mounting end of the bracket. | 09-06-2012 |
20130230291 | EXTERIOR DISTRIBUTION PEDESTAL CABINET - An exterior distribution pedestal cabinet includes an enclosure having a top, a bottom and first and second sides extending between the top and the bottom, a door disposed on a front side of the enclosure, a cable management bracket within the enclosure, a plurality of splitter modules mounted within the enclosure at the cable management bracket, a connector holder bracket, a plurality of connector holders mounted at the connector holder bracket; and a pass-through connector adaptor plate. | 09-05-2013 |
20140126875 | CONNECTOR FERRULE HOLDER - A coupling including an adapter cap end and ferrule dust cap end is provided. The coupling may be used to store disconnected fiber optic lines in physical proximity to their assigned output by using a method of storing a fiber optic network connector. The method includes installing the coupling into a fiber optic network adapter by plugging the adapter cap end into the fiber optic network adapter; and installing the fiber optic network connector into the ferrule dust cap end of the coupling. | 05-08-2014 |
20140233898 | HIGH RELIABILITY ARMORED TERMINATION/EPOXY GLAND - An armored cable termination/fiber-optic seal which connects a fiber optic cable—the fiber optic cable including one or more armor wires and one or more cable tubes—to a pressure housing, the armored cable termination/fiber-optic seal including: an armored termination which locks the one or more armor wires in a conical cavity; sealing paths which block water from traveling in the interstitial space between the one or more armor wires and the one or more cable tubes into the pressure housing; and fiber feed-through tubes which block water from traveling in the interior of the one or more cable tubes into the pressure housing. | 08-21-2014 |